"Phlegethon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shade of that grove which I see in the valley. After I have performed a penance there, I will crawl on my knees to the feet of those illustrious shades, and beg them to see me burn my impertinent books of criticism in the fiery billows of Phlegethon with my ...
— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton
... terminology that will save them; all signature and mintage do but magnify the ruin they retard; and even the riches that remain, stagnant or current, change only from the slime of Avernus to the sand of Phlegethon—quicksand at the embouchure;—land fluently recommended by recent auctioneers as "eligible ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... locomotion. Why can't the directors have more Christianlike names for their moving power? What connexion is there between a beautiful new engine, shining in all its finery—the personification of obedient and beneficent strength—with the "Infernal," or the "Phlegethon," or the "Styx?" Are they aware what a disagreeable association of ideas is produced in the students of Lempriere's classical dictionary by the two last names? or the Charon or Atropos? Let these things be mended, and let them be called by some more inviting appellations—Nelson, St ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... Phlegethon no more need fright us, For we've bridged its fiery way; And the steamer on Cocytus Long ago has ceased ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... the earth was the kingdom of darkness, and torment, and sin? What could be more certain? Had not even the heathens said so, by the mouth of the poet Virgil? What could be more simple, rational, orthodox, than to adopt (as they actually did) Virgil's own words, and talk of Tartarus, Styx, and Phlegethon, as indisputable Christian entities. They were not aware that the Buddhists of the far East had held much the same theory of endless retribution several centuries before; and that Dante, with his various bolge, tenanted each ...
— The Water of Life and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley |
